Word: railroad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusty, backlands Brazilian hamlet of Estaçäo de Santa Barbara was just a whistle stop on the Paulista Railroad until two foreigners arrived there in 1868. The foreigners were Colonel William H. Norris and his son Robert, unreconstructed U.S. rebels from Oglethorpe, Ga. Heartsick at the South's defeat, they had listened with interest to tales of Brazil, a vast country where slavery was still a respected institution and a gentleman planter could work his lands in peace and dignity...
...Railroad Hour (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado...
...Railroad and Locomotive Historical Society, the museum is allowed its space in return for putting materials gathered by Society members in the library. The society was founded in 1921 for anyone interested in trains, especially locomotives...
Most of the bells exhibited are from the New Haven Railroad. These are valuable, but from a dollars and cents point of view the lithographs of locomotives would count most; they are the drawings of the engines as they actually appeared, with some in color...
Next door to the exhibit room is the Society's record file, under the supervision of the superintendent of the Museum, Jason A. Swadkins. Bsides actual business accounts there are filed pictures of every railroad engine type in the nation...